As part of its mandate, KT Canada has developed and hosted the first, expert-led seminar series dedicated to current and emerging topics in KT. Reception to the series has been impressive and demand continues to grow as additional links to researchers, health care professionals, policy makers and trainees are established.
Each session includes a question and answer period (15 minutes per 1 hour session). Sessions are held via WEBEX. To register as an individual or a site, please contact us.
Recordings of the sessions will be posted within 2 weeks on the KT Canada website.
Upcoming Seminar Series Sessions:
View upcoming seminar series on our events page.
Past Seminar Series Sessions:
2024 Seminar Series sessions
- January 2024 – Dr. Anita Kothari, “Discussions about Scaling Science Frameworks and Innovation Impact – Based on a Scoping Review”
- February 2024 – Dr. Cole Etherington, “Bringing Intersectionality to Implementation Science”
- March 2024 – Dr. Wynne Norton, “Future Directions in Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health: Where are we now and where can we go from here?”
- April 2024 – Linda Hunter, “Regaining Power and Control Living with Chronic Pain: My Journey as a Patient Research Partner”
- May 2024 – Dr. Khara Sauro, “Implementing AI: Barriers & facilitators to adopting AI tools in healthcare”
- September 2024 – Dr. Lisa Strifler, “Development and usability testing of a support tool to identify models and frameworks to inform the practice of KT”
- October 2024 – Brenda Tittlemier, “Investigating Evaluation and Effects of Partnered Rehabilitation Research”
- November 2024 – Keila Turino Miranda, “Can-SOLVE CKD: Capturing our IDEA (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility) journey as a patient-oriented kidney research network”
- December 2024 – Dr. Roberta de Carvalho Corôa, “Strategies for involving patients and the public in scaling – Scoping review”
2023 Seminar Series sessions
- January 2023 – Dr. Sarah Birken, “Improving care in dynamic systems: Lessons from organization theory”
- February 2023 – Dr. Leigh-Anne Bakel, “Creating a Pediatric Clinical Pathways Learning Health System-Real World Experience from Children’s Hospital Colorado”
- March 2023 – Dr. Lehana Thabane, “Pilot and Feasibility Studies: Past, Present, and Future”
- May 2023 – Dr. Geoffrey Curran, “Effectiveness-Implementation Hybrid Studies: An Overview and Reflection on 10 Years Since Their Introduction”
- September 2023 – Dr. Nick Sevdalis, “Why and what are we controlling…? Reflections on how to design and manage control groups in hybrid effectiveness-implementation trials”
- October 2023 – Dr. Wanrudee Isaranuwatchai, “Help me help you: Potential roles of health economics and health technology assessment to support your research”
- November 2023 – Dr. Maoliosa Donald, “Mission Impossible: An Implementation Experience”
2022 Seminar Series sessions
- February 2022 – Dr. Sabrina Wong, “Using Primary Care Electronic Medical Record Data to Inform Practice Quality Improvement”
- March 2022 – Drs Janet Jull & Jennifer Walker, “Centering Indigenous Knowledges: Engaging with Indigenous Ways of Knowing, Being, and Doing in Knowledge Synthesis”
- April 2022 – Dr. Janet Squires, “Quality of Health Care in Canada: A Systematic Review of Inappropriately Used Clinical Practices”
- May 2022 – “Engaging beyond the usual suspects: Challenges and opportunities from the patient perspective”
- September 2022 – Diane Oickle, Dr. Lori Wozney, “We could not have predicted this! Opportunistic and co-developed KT of digital equity products”
- October 2022 – Dr. Mari Somerville, “Exploring the implementation of learning health systems in tertiary care: A health system impact fellowship journey”
- November 2022 – Dr. Andrea Tricco, “Co-Creation of Knowledge Synthesis with Knowledge Users”
- December 2022 – Dr. Ghazal Fazli, “Nothing About Us, Without Us: The need for trauma-informed intersectional analysis of diabetes risk during COVID-19 through patient and public engagement.” Nicole George, “Community partnerships for equity-oriented chronic pain care”
2021 Seminar Series sessions
- January 14, 2021 – Dr. Amédé Gogovor, “Integrating Sex and Gender Considerations in Knowledge Translation”
- February 11, 2021 – Dr. Brigitte Vachon and Dr. Sathya Karunananthan, “Replication of Studies and Systematic Reviews: Why, When, and How?”
- March 26, 2021 – Dr. Derek Roberts, “Overuse Research in Surgery: Studying Low-Value Care”
- April 29, 2021 – Dr. Robert McLean, “Scaling Science”
- June 10, 2021 – Harlan Pruden, “New Language Guide Helps to Destigmatize COVID-19”
- September 9, 2021 – Dr. Marie-Claude Tremblay, “Integrated Knowledge Translation: a Tailored KT Strategy for Indigenous Health Research”
- October 14, 2021 – Dr. Maria E. Fernandez, “Developing and Tailoring Implementation Strategies: An Implementation Mapping Approach”
- November 12, 2021 – Harlan Pruden, “Two-Spirit in Health Research: Collecting Data in a Culturally Affirming Way”
- December 9, 2021 – Dr. Richard Henry, “A Review of the Incorporation of Recommendations for Trans and Gender-Diverse People in Clinical Practice Guidelines: Preliminary Findings and Status” and Jillian Macklin, “Patient Engagement in AI Development in Healthcare: Where Are We and Where Are We Going?”
2020 Seminar Series sessions
- January 9, 2020 – Ivan D. Florez, “Role of Clinical Practice Guidelines in Supporting Decisions Outside the Clinical Encounter”
- February 13, 2020 – Dr. Wendy Gifford, “Community-led Knowledge Translation: Experiences translating knowledge with Indigenous Communities”
- March 12, 2020 – Dr. Angela Fong, “Developing a Knowledge Translation Tool to Facilitate Physical Activity Discussions in Oncology Care”
- April 9, 2020 – Dr. Christine Cassidy, “Working Collaboratively within the Health System: Lessons learned from an embedded KT scientist”
- May 14, 2020 – Dr. Jennifer Tomasone, “Using knowledge translation science to disseminate and implement national movement behaviour guidelines”
- June 11, 2020 – Lisa Knisley, “Engaging Metis citizens in Manitoba in the development of child health resources” and Dr. Amanda Wurz, “Developing in-hospital physical activity opportunities for children and adolescents during treatment for cancer”
- July 9, 2020 – Dr. Alex Korall, “Engaging patient and public partners in a scoping review on the science and practice of James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnerships” and Lashanda Skerritt, “Identifying reproductive health priorities and factors promoting women’s satisfaction with HIV care in Canada: Fuzzy Cognitive Maps as an Integrated Knowledge Translation tool”
- September 10, 2020 – Dr. Maria Santana & Kimberly Manalili, “How to use PROMs and PREMs in healthcare: what, how, and why”
- November 12, 2020 – Dr. Anita Kothari & Mr. Kurt Tulsieram, “Integrated Knowledge Translation in Networks”
- December 10, 2020 – Dr. Tizneem Jiancaro, “Digital Health Behaviour Change and How to Study It: A Systems Engineering Approach”
2019 Seminar Series sessions
- January 10, 2019 – Dr. Jessie-Lee McIsaac, “Building research partnerships to support child well-being in Nova Scotia”
- February 14, 2019 – Dr. Melissa Brouwers, “The AGREE tool”
- March 14, 2019 – Claire Ludwig, “Engaging frail and seriously ill patients in research”
- April 11, 2019 – Jenny Leese, “Everyday ethics in patient-oriented knowledge translation”
- May 9, 2019 – Dr. Carole Estabrooks, “Improving care for frail older adults with dementia near the end of life: Interventions and their lifecycles and the role of engagement with multiple stakeholders”
- September 12, 2019 – Dr. Christine Fahim, “The Improving Wisely Project: Use of KT Strategies to mitigate healthcare overuse, underuse and misuse”
- October 10, 2019 – Dr. Nancy Salbach, “Exploring the role of toolkits as a guideline implementation tool in the context of stroke rehabilitation”
- November 14, 2019 – Dr. David Johnson, “Creation of a data analyst team (MyCHILD ALBERTA) to facilitate the evaluation of KT and Quality Projects”
- December 12, 2019 – Dr. Samira Rahimi, “AI-empowered knowledge translation”
2018 Seminar Series sessions
- January 11, 2018 – Dr. Christine Chambers, “#ItDoesntHaveToHurt: A parent-directed knowledge translation intervention to improve children’s pain management”
- February 8, 2018 – Dr. Joyce Dogba, “Relay the message! From Deliberative Dialogue to Knowledge Translation: An effective research tool”
- March 8, 2018 – Penny Cooper and Gayle Scarrow, “How to Know If It’s Working: Developing an Organizational KT Evaluation Framework”
- April 12, 2018 – Alison Hoens, “Knowledge Brokers – Are they the answer to knowledge translation challenges in healthcare?”
- September 13, 2018 – Dr. Sarah Munro, “Patient-oriented knowledge translation – implementing shared decision-making in practice”
- October 11, 2018 – Dr. Martha MacLeod, “Honouring Practice, Dialogue, and Difference: Taking a Hermeneutic Approach to Knowledge Translation”
- November 8, 2018 – Dr. Matthew Menear, “Embedding KT research within a provincial quality improvement program for chronic diseases in primary care”
- December 13, 2018 – Ms. Linda Wilhelm and Dr. Meghan Elliott, “Patient engagement in trainee supervision: Contextualizing findings from kidney disease priority-setting partnership”
2017 Seminar Series sessions
- January 12, 2017 – Drs. Sophie Desroches and Audrée-Anne Dumas, “Using social media to improve dietary behaviors”
- February 9, 2017 – Dr. Robin Urquhart, “Uncovering the role of middle managers in the implementation of innovations in cancer care”
- March 9, 2017 – Dr. Cheryl Currie, “Translational Research in Indigenous Health: Identifying Critical Paths Forward”
- April 13, 2017 – Joan L. Bottorff, “Evidence to practice: Designing gender-sensitive health promotion approaches for men”
- May 11, 2017 – Dr. David Johnson, “An update on Alberta’s health system KT experiment: Alberta Health Services Strategic Clinical Networks
- September 14, 2017 – Dr. Noah Ivers, “Audit and Feedback: using data to improve quality of care”
- October 12, 2017 – Dr. Annie LeBlanc, “Meaningful translation of comparative effectiveness research at the point of care”
- November 9, 2017 – Dr. Guillermina Noël, “The value of human-centered design when creating KT strategies”
2016 Seminar Series sessions
- January 12, 2016 – Dr. Richard Fleet, “Rural emergency Care in Canada: Should you be concerned?”
- February 11, 2016 – Dr. Melissa Brouwers, “When It Worked and When It Didn’t – Tales from a Pragmatic KT Scientist”
- March 10, 2016 – Ms Liz Crawford, Dr Richard Keijzer and Dr Kristy Wittmeier, “A parent led initiative to determine priorities for Hirschsprung’s Disease (HD) research”
- April 14, 2016 – Dr. Anna Gagliardi, “Patient-mediated knowledge translation (PKT) interventions for clinical encounters”
- May 12, 2016 – Dr. Monika Kastner, “Effectiveness of KT tools addressing multiple high-burden chronic diseases affecting older adults: A systematic review”
- September 8, 2016 – Dr. Jeremy Grimshaw, “Increasing value and reducing waste in knowledge translation and implementation research”
- October 13, 2016 – Dr. Kathryn Sibley, “Considering Researchers as Knowledge Translation Stakeholders: Exploring Health Researchers’ Understanding of and Experiences with KT”
- November 10, 2016 – Dr. Reza Yousefi Nooraie, “A network analysis perspective to implementation science; lessons learned from a mixed methods study of Public Health Units in Ontario”
- December 8, 2016 – Drs. John Lavis and Kaelan Moat, “Evidence and Insight in Context: Key Steps Toward Evidence-Informed Policymaking”
2015 Seminar Series sessions
- January 8, 2015 – Lisa Dolovich, “Teams Advancing Patient Experience: Strengthening Quality (or TAPESTRY). A paradigm shift to a person centred integrated health care delivery approach”
- February 12, 2015 – Marie-Pierre Gagnon, “OR4KT: Development of an instrument to assess organizational readiness for knowledge translation in healthcare”
- March 12, 2015 – Janet Curran, “Designing and evaluating interventions to improve transitions in pediatric emergency care”
- April 9, 2015 – Holly Witteman, “User-centred design: Designing for the way people are, rather than the way we wish they were”
- May 14, 2015 – Stephen Gentles and Janet Jull, “Understanding how parents of children with autism navigate complex information and care”
- September 10, 2015 – Terry Klassen, “Translating Emergency Knowledge for Kids (TREKK), a knowledge mobilization initiative to improve emergency care for all children in Canada”
- October 8, 2015 – Dr. Michel Labrecque, “Evaluation of behavior change interventions to increase the use of pneumatic otoscopy in family medicine: a pilot randomized trial”
- November 12, 2015 – Dr. Susan Michie, “The Behaviour Change Wheel: a new method for characterising and designing behaviour change interventions”
- December 10, 2015 – Dr. Jamie Brehaut, “Developing a research agenda for feedback: 389 hypotheses and counting…”
2014 Seminar Series sessions
- January 9, 2014 – Monika Kastner, “The potential of knowledge translation tools to improve chronic disease management: An interrupted time series analysis of an osteoporosis tool in primary care”
- February 13, 2014 – Lisa Hartling and Michele Hamm, “Social media for health care, knowledge mobilization, and stakeholder engagement: an overview of a research program”
- March 13, 2014 – Janet Squires, “A Theory-Based Knowledge Translation Intervention to Improve Physician Hand Hygiene Practice”
- April 10, 2014 – Brian Hutton, “The PRISMA extension statement for network meta-analysis: development, progress and findings”
- May 8, 2014 – Vivian Welch, “The PRISMA-Equity extension statement for equity-focused systematic reviews: development and knowledge translation efforts”
- September 11, 2014 – Bev Temple, “Use of KT models in the development of a Research Program”
- October 9, 2014 – Ian Graham, “Have I got a book for you!”
- November 13, 2014 – Russ Glasgow, “The RE-AIM Framework: History, Recent Applications, and Future Directions”
- December 11, 2014 – Linda Li, “Patients in research 2.0: Successful cases on patient engagement and collaboration in health research”
2013 Seminar Series sessions
- January 10, 2013 – Laure Perrier, “Development of a Shortened Systematic Review Format”
- February 14, 2013 – Louis-Philippe Boulet, “Respiratory Guidelines: Update, Dissemination and Implementation”
- March 14, 2013 – Larissa Shamseer, “Lessons learned from the development of a strategy to improve the uptake of CONSORT”
- April 11, 2013 – Patrick Archambault, “Wikis and Collaborative Writing Applications as KT Interventions in Health Care”
- May 9, 2013 – John Lavis, “Informing Policy Decisions Within and About a Health System”
- September 12, 2013 – Kevin Pottie, “Knowledge Translation to Improve the Health of Vulnerable Populations”
- October 10, 2013 – Sumit Majumdar, “Bringing the “A” Back to the KTA Cycle: The AVOID Fracture Trial”
- November 14, 2013 – Brian Hutton, “The PRISMA extension statement for network meta-analysis: development, progress and findings”
- December 12, 2013 – Michelle Kho, “Interdisciplinary Knowledge Translation in Critical Care Rehabilitation”
2012 Seminar Series sessions
- January 12, 2012 – France Légaré and Joan Sargeant, “Update on the Continuing Professional Development KT Initiatives”
- February 9, 2012 – Tom Stelfox, “Developing quality indicators when there is limited evidence: the example of injury care”
- March 8, 2012 – Michele Hamm, “A mixed methods study of barriers and facilitators to methodological rigor in pediatric randomized trials” and Hannah O’Rourke, “Identifying high priority care areas to enhance quality of life for residents with dementia in long-term care”
- April 12, 2012 – Antonia Stang, “The Development of Quality Indicators for High Acuity Pediatric Conditions: Challenges in the Translation of Knowledge into Performance”
- May 10, 2012 – André Bussières, “Strategies to optimize x-ray utilization among North American chiropractors”
- September 13, 2012 – Kevin Pottie, “Knowledge Translation to Improve the Health of Vulnerable Populations”
- October 11, 2012 – David Johnson, ” Alberta Health Services Strategic Clinical Networks: a real opportunity for KT”
- November 8, 2012 – Anik Giguère, “Effectiveness and development methodology of printed educational materials: the Decision Box example”
- December 13, 2012 – Greta Cummings, “Enhancing Coaching and Leadership Competencies to Promote Knowledge Translation in Long-term Care”
2011 Seminar Series sessions
- January 13, 2011 – Suzanne Tough and Nancy Reynolds, “Policy Makers and Researchers as Partners in Knowledge Mobilization”
- February 10, 2011 – Jacqueline Tetroe, “Required versus inspired partnerships: Report on a survey of researchers and knowledge-users holding integrated KT grants”
- March 10, 2011 – Susan Jaglal and Veronique Boscart, “KT Research at Toronto Rehabilitation Institute: Using Psychological Theory to Improve the Implementation of a Hand Hygiene Intervention”
- April 14, 2011 – Diane Doran, “Supporting evidence based practice through information technologies”
- May 12, 2011 – Jayna Holroyd-Leduc, “Evidence-based Self-management: Translation of Knowledge into a Self-management Tool for Patients with Urinary Incontinence”
- June 9, 2011 – Marie-Pierre Gagnon, “Translating knowledge to support e-health implementation in healthcare: A multidimensional approach”
- September 8, 2011 – Ryan McCarthy and Adrian Mota, “Applying to Integrated Knowledge Translation Funding Opportunities at CIHR: Tips for Success”
- October 13, 2011 – Debbie White, “Leading for Quality and Safety”
- November 10, 2011 – Dr. Onil Bhattacharyya, “Knowledge Translation in Low and Middle Income Countries”
- December 08, 2011 – Gaston Godin, “Asking questions about behaviour-relevant cognitions changes behaviour: The question-behaviour effect”
2010 Seminar Series sessions
- January 14, 2010 – Dr. Melissa Brouwers, “Advancements in development, reporting and evaluation of clinical practice guidelines: Introducing AGREE II”
- February 11, 2010 – Dr. Sophie Desroches, “Translating nutrition research into practice: a look at novel strategies to improve evidence-based diet-related decisions”
- March 11, 2010 – Dr. Onil Bhattacharyya, “Making Guidelines Easier to Follow: Bridging Best Evidence and a Clear Message”
- April 8, 2010 – Dr. Ian Graham, “Lost in Translation: How I found the way”
- May 13, 2010 – Drs. Lisa Hartling, Terry Klassen and Shannon Scott, “Storytelling as a KT strategy in child health: Croup as an illustrative example”
- September 9, 2010 – Brian Haynes, “KT Trials Must Overcome Both Poor Practitioner and Patient Performance”
- October 14, 2010 – Dr. Barbara Davies, “Sustainability of KT Innovations”
- December 9, 2010 – Dr. Mathieu Ouimet, “Studying the Use of Research Knowledge in Public Bureaucracies”
2009 Seminar Series sessions
- January 08, 2009 – Dr. John Lavis, “Supporting research use by health system managers and policymakers”
- February 12, 2009 – Dr. France Légaré, “A Shared Decision Making Approach to Knowledge Transfer and Exchange”
- March 12, 2009 – Dr. Charles Weijer, “Ethical Challenges in Knowledge Translation Research”
- April 9, 2009 – Dr. Annette O’Connor, “Patient Decision Aids as a Knowledge Translation Strategy: Opportunities and Barriers”
- May 14, 2009 – Dr. David Johnson, “Cluster RCT comparing three methods of implementing practice guidelines for children with croup”
- September 10, 2009 – Professor Paul Glasziou, “Collaborative Journal Clubs: Can Bottom Up Implementation Work?”
- October 8, 2009 – Dr. Ann McKibbon, “How we use the language of KT, and its challenges: Time for Changes?”
- November 12, 2009 – Dr. Anne Sales, “The influence of social networks on KT in long term care facilities”
- December 9, 2009 – Dr. Jamie Brehaut, “A Cognitive Perspective of Knowledge Translation”
2008 Seminar Series sessions
- December 11, 2008 – Dr. Martin Eccles, “Implementation Science – A Letter from the UK”